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Traditionally\nthis Fourth Sunday of Lent is known as Leatare Sunday<\/em>. From the\nLatin for Rejoice!, Leatare Sunday <\/em>serves as a reminder that\nwe are more than half-way over our Lenten journey. Flowers in the sanctuary and\nthe priest’s rose vestments emphasize this bid to rejoice. However, albeit the\ninvitation to rejoice in hope, this Sunday is still a Sunday of <\/em>Lent.\nIn other words, Lent is not over yet, and the call to repentance remains\npresent. Therefore, this Sunday, the Church offers us an opportunity to\ncontemplate, from within the context of the penitential season of Lent, the\nhope given to us in Christ. And this is also what the readings propose to us:\nhope in the midst of suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\nGospel, Jesus points Nicodemus to the experience of the Israelites with the\nseraph serpents in the desert. (Num. 21:1-9) As Moses lifted the bronze serpent\nfor the people to look at and live, so too will “the Son of Man be lifted\nup, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” (Jn. 3:14-15) It\nis into the midst of human suffering and trial that God intervenes to, again\nand again, make his mercy and healing available. Moreover, as Jesus points out,\nthe remedy offered through His Cross is definitive. While the bronze serpent\npreserved the Israelite’s mortal lives, the Son of Man is lifted up to\ngive eternal <\/em>life to those who believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nwhat is required of the Israelites, of us, to attain the hope given to us amid\nour toil? The incident of the seraph serpents may contain some clues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First,\nwe ought to recognize that what kills the Israelities is sin. Understanding the\nimage of the serpents makes this plain. On more than a few instances before,\nthe Serpent figure has taken the stage in the Scriptures. In Genesis 3:15, God\npromises that the Serpent will be crushed, but what we tend to forget is that\nHe also promises an enduring enmity between its seed and the Woman’s before the\nfinal blow is dealt. In this instance of the seraph serpents, the people’s\ndeath is indeed the immediate result of the Israelite’s giving in to the\nSerpent’s temptation. The people themselves admit as much when they come to\nMoses, acknowledging that they have sinned and asking for the serpents to be\ntaken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second,\nwe should also notice that implied in looking at the bronze serpent for healing\nis the admittance of being bitten and needing to be saved. This becomes all the\nmore apparent when we remember that the Israelites were not just a few. The\nnumber of military-aged men alone, taken at the beginning of the book of\nNumbers, is 603,550. (Num. 1:46) Hence, their camp would have occupied a large\nportion of land. Therefore, the prescribed remedy of looking at the bronze\nserpent would have required the intentional recognition of sickness and faith in\nthe prescribed medicine. Both of which were manifested in the act of going to\nlook at the serpent on the pole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is\nrequired of us to attain the hope given in Christ? Exactly what the Lent season\nis about: repentance and faith. “Repent and believe in the Gospel,”\nwe are told on Ash Wednesday. Both of these are acts of the will, meaning that\nalthough the hope of salvation is granted to us, we still need to avail\nourselves of it. How? By the humble recognition of our sins, faith in God’s\nmercy, and the deliberate resolve to seek it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santiago Torres<\/strong> \u2013 St. Joseph Seminary, Edmonton, Alberta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fot. Omar Rodriguez\/Unsplash.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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